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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Attackers dressed as police officers opened fire in a bar in Mexico's northern Chihuahua state, killing 11 people, authorities said Friday.
"Last night (Thursday), a group of armed people entered the Rio Rosas bar in Chihuahua city and shot indiscriminately on the patrons," an official from the state attorney's office said.
"At the moment there are 11 dead," the official said, adding that four others were seriously wounded and under armed guard in hospital.
"The attackers arrived in several vans, in false federal uniforms, wearing balaclavas," the official said.
Police were searching for the trucks used in the attack, which were caught on the bar's security cameras.
At least 19 people died in separate attacks overnight in Chihuahua State, Mexico's most violent, including four police.
Suspected drug-related attacks have claimed almost 3,500 lives so far this year across Mexico.
A government crackdown on drug-related violence, initiated by President Felipe Calderon almost two years ago and including the deployment of 36,000 troops, has showed no sign of stopping the killings.
- AFP /ls
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